In PerformancePoint
Server, business intelligence developers are guided through the process of creating
KPIs, building scorecards, and then placing those scorecards on dashboards.
Dashboards are then published, usually to SharePoint, for consumption by others
in the organization.
The scorecards and dashboards in PerformancePoint Server are built with the
Dashboard Designer, which is the replacement for the Office Business Scorecard
Manager 2005 Scorecard Builder. Business Scorecard Manager was used to create
scorecards and dashboards using KPIs and was released prior to SQL Server 2005.
While it worked with both Analysis Services 2000 and Analysis Services 2005, it
failed to take advantage of some of the new features found in Analysis Services
2005, such as the KPIs built into Analysis Services 2005 cubes. Microsoft did release
a converter utility that could move Analysis Services 2005 KPIs into Business
Scorecard Manager and back, but the Dashboard Designer in PerformancePoint
Server natively understands KPIs and all the other Analysis Services 2005 features.
Data Sources and Scorecards
The tool that will be used to create KPIs, scorecards, reports, and dashboards in this
chapter is called the Dashboard Designer. The Dashboard Designer is a rich client
application. It is often launched from Dashboard Central, a web page that is visible
to BI developers and dashboard designers. This page is reached by typing the name
of the server and then adding /central, or sometimes by specifying the name of the
server and a port number, as shown in Figure 5-1.
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